Quincy comes from an English surname that was derived from the personal name Quintus. This is an ancient Roman first name meaning ‘the fifth’. It was traditionally given to the fifth child in a family or a child born in the fifth month of the year.
Quincy is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
The name Quincy isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Quincy ranks 578. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Quincy. In the entire USA, approximately 24,205 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Quincy. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Quincy comes from an English surname that was derived from the personal name Quintus. This is an ancient Roman first name meaning ‘the fifth’. It was traditionally given to the fifth child in a family or a child born in the fifth month of the year.
Quincy is an ... old name in the US and had its most popular phase in the 1970s.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The Q is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 0.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a Q. Only the letters X and U are even rarer as the first letter of boys' names. By the way, the most common initial letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Quincy is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that as 0.8% of all boys' names start with a Q, all other letters occur on average more than five times as often as the Q. Of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a Q, most are also not very common - the most popular currently is the one of Mr. Tarantino.
If your name is Quincy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Quincy, you can simply say:
Queen
Unicorn
Igloo
Nut
Cat
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Quincy
Quincy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Quincy sounds like this: